{"id":230550,"date":"2026-04-17T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-local-authorities-officials-must-be-held-accountable-without-intimidation-matyayi\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T03:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:06:44","slug":"namibia-local-authorities-officials-must-be-held-accountable-without-intimidation-matyayi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-local-authorities-officials-must-be-held-accountable-without-intimidation-matyayi\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Local Authorities Officials Must Be Held Accountable Without Intimidation &#8211; Matyayi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Association for Local Authorities in Namibia (Nalao) president Moses Matyayi has called for local authority officials to be held accountable in a fair and transparent manner, free from intimidation and political interference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking at a Nalao event at Ongwediva on Wednesday, Matyayi stressed the importance of allowing professional officials to carry out their duties independently while ensuring accountability based on due process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;Officials must be held to account in a manner that is fair,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604160048.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association for Local Authorities in Namibia (Nalao) president Moses Matyayi has called for local authority officials to be held accountable in a fair and transparent manner, free from intimidation and political interference. Speaking at a Nalao event at Ongwediva on Wednesday, Matyayi stressed the importance of allowing professional officials to carry out their duties independently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[23730,258,256,7215,7297,7612,7823,54179,4706,724,257,6651,254],"class_list":["post-230550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accountable","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-held","tag-intimidation","tag-local","tag-matyayi","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}